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Defining Delinquency And Determining Its Extent -- Criminal-type Behavior -- Defining Juvenile Delinquent -- Methods Of Measuring Delinquent Behavior -- Official Data -- Self-report Data -- Victim Data -- Measurement Complications -- Official Statistics--uniform Crime Reports -- Sources And Types Of Data -- Results By Sex And Age -- Results By Race -- Results By Population Concentration -- The Broad Picture -- Self-report Data--the Seattle Youth Study -- Principal Features Of The Study -- The Extent Of Violating -- Results By Sex And Race -- Results By Socioeconomic Status -- The Broad Picture -- The National Crime Victimization Survey (ncvs) -- Principal Features Of The Survey -- Offender Characteristics -- Noncriminal Misbehavior -- Children And Their Offenses In History -- Early Approaches To Childhood And Youth -- The Emergence Of Modern Ideas -- The Significance Of Colonial America -- The Revolution In Sentiment In The Nineteenth Century: Toward A Child-centered Family -- The Birth Of Juvenile Delinquency -- The Stimulus Of Urbanization -- The Discovery Of Adolescence -- The Prolongation Of Childhood -- G. Stanley Hall: The Psychology Of Adolescence -- The Extent Of Hall's Influence -- Adolescence And Delinquency: Early Ideas -- Environmentalism, Adolescence, And Delinquency In Turn-of-the-century Thought -- The Twentieth Century -- Child Rearing And Friendship: A Twentieth-century Theme -- The Twentieth-century Child And The Weakening Of The Family -- Twentieth-century Conceptions Of Delinquency: An Overview. Arnold Binder, Gilbert Geis, Dickson Bruce. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes.